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We fact checked claims made by Rachel Reeves and Rishi Sunak as Labour delivered its first Budget statement in 14 years.

Our round-up features verdicts on a number of different topics, including employer National Insurance, bus fares and growth forecasts.

Budget round-up

It’s been claimed an image circulating online compares a “drinker’s brain” with the brain of a “non-drinker”.

This is false. The “drinker’s brain” image is actually a photo of a 2,600-year-old brain found during excavations near York in 2008.

Brain fog

A viral image appears to be an old photo showing US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris in a McDonald’s uniform.

Ms Harris has said that she worked at McDonald’s in the 1980s, but this image has been edited—the original photo features someone else wearing the uniform.

Faked photo